Improved clothes-pounder



UNITED STATES -PivrENT CEEICE EEVEL s. MORGAN, o'E DELHI, I o'w'A.

`HVIPROVED CLOTHES-Poutine.

Specification forming part of Letters'Pat-ent No. 75,562, dated March 17', 1868.

i To a/ZZ whom t may concern.-

vpart of this specification, in which The shaded gure represents the implement or device with the handles and head or jaws closed when used for pounding', and the gure described by dotted lines represents the handles and jaws of the head extended preparatory to seizing the clothes for the purpose of lifting them or moving them about.

Said device is constructed of two pieces of wood, each hollowed out on one side of the head, (letters C (3,) leaving a projection at the extreme end of the head, (letters B 13,) forming a cavity in the head where the jaws are closed, (letter C shaded iigure,) the two pieces joined together by an iron or wood pin near the head, (letter A,) and being smaller above,where they are joined at letter A, the two forming a handle, when closed together, for pounding, and

forming two handles, (when extended) letters E E. Itis used for pounding` clothes in avesl sel, for seizing theclothes by opening and closing the sections of the head D D for the purpose of turning or moving them about, and

also for lifting clothes out of the vessel. It is operated entirely, both in the pounding and and in the seizing of the clothes and moving them about, by the handles E E, the opening of the handles, as in figure described by the dotted lines, operatingto open the two sections of the head, as shown in the same fig- 'ure, and the closing of the handles in shaded 'Ihe construction of the two pieces of wood` D D and E E, the hollowed surface of each of the two sections of the head C C forming the cavity C when closed', as and for the purpose specified.

BEVEL S. MORGAN.

Witnesses:

'HENRY HARGER,

SAMUEL HUssEY. 

